Decadence: A Literary History - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108426298 ISBN 13 : 9781108426299

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Decadence, that flowering of a mannered literary style in France during the Second Empire, and in the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, holds an endless fascination. Yet the ambiguity of the term 'decadence' and the challenges of identifying its practitioners make grasping its contours difficult. From the obsession with classical cultures, to the responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, this book offers one of the most comprehensive histories of literary Decadence. The essays here interrogate and expand the formal, geographical, and temporal frameworks for understanding Decadent literature, while offering a renewed focus on the role played by women writers. Featuring essays by leading scholars on sexuality, politics, science, translation, the New Woman, Russian and Spanish American Decadence, the influence of cinema on Decadence, and much more, it is essential reading for all those interested in the literature of the 1890s and Oscar Wilde.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alex Murray is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the Queen's University, Belfast. His most recent monograph is Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle (2016) and he edited, with Kate Hext, Decadence in the Age of Modernism (2019), and with Jason David Hall Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siècle (2013). His essays have recently appeared in Modernism/modernity; Journal of Victorian Culture; Modernist Cultures; English Literature in Transition 1880-1920; MFS Modern Fiction Studies; Textual Practice.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108426298
• ISBN 13: 9781108426299
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 530
• Éditeur: Murray Alex
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie